Comments on: “Covert” Operations by East Anglia’s CRUhttps://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/
by Steve McIntyreTue, 26 Sep 2017 21:05:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: tallblokehttps://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/#comment-330899
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:35:11 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-330899Thanks for keeping an eye on this Richard.
]]>By: Richard Drakehttps://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/#comment-330898
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:25:39 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-330898Neil Wallis has been giving evidence today to the Levenson Inquiry investigating the role of press and police in the phone-hacking scandal. Not surprisingly Wallis doesn’t think there was any problem with his various links with police. There’s no mention of UEA or the strange behaviour of Norfolk and anti-terrorism police post Climategate in the BBC report – but the relationship with John Yates and Andy Hayman did come up.
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Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:55:58 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-330832[…] to divert from the problem. When the emails were leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) a public relations person was engaged. Website Desmogblog is the brainchild of James Hoggan, Board Chairman of the […]
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Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:09:37 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-330741[…] to divert from the problem. When the emails were leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) a public relations person was engaged. Website Desmogblog is the brainchild of James Hoggan, Board Chairman of the […]
]]>By: Richard Drakehttps://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/#comment-327661
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:09:39 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-327661The strange story of David Cameron riding the old police horse reminded me of something fairly damning I heard Alan Johnson, the former Labour Home Secretary, say about John Yates on BBC2 last night (only available for seven days):

I feel pretty strongly about this. I was in post when the Guardian story broke about Gordon Taylor in 2009, I was the Home Secretary and looked John Yates in the eye and said “Look, what’s going on here”, and was assured, as my predecessors had, and others have in the past, was assured. I asked about John Prescott in particular, he’s my oppo in East Hull and I asked about John in particular. They said there’s no evidence that John Prescott’s phone had been hacked. It had and the evidence was there, we now know.

It’s not looking at all good for Yates of the Yard at the moment. And his close links with Neil Wallis in those days remain, so far mostly unexplored.

]]>By: Richard Drakehttps://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/#comment-327647
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:50:25 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-327647Feeling a need to correct this small point back in July stuck in the mind. As with so much, it wasn’t the whole story, as has come out after revelations this week that one of Brooks’s horses came as a gift from the Metropolitan Police:

David Cameron has confirmed he did ride a horse which police lent to former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks.

He apologised for allowing a “confusing picture” over the issue to emerge after days of speculation.

News that London’s police force lent Mrs Brooks a horse emerged as inquiries continue into the relationship between News International and the Met.

Mr Cameron joked that he did not think he would be “getting back into the saddle any time soon.”

Earlier, a spokesman would only say the PM “probably” rode the horse, which was called Raisa, amid much speculation at Westminster.

But Mr Cameron told reporters he had ridden Raisa during a riding expedition with Mrs Brooks’ husband, Charlie, who has been a friend of the prime minister’s for over 30 years.

“I have not been riding with him since the election. Before the election, yes, I did go riding with him,” he said.

“He has a number of horses and, yes, one of them was this former police horse, Raisa, which I did ride.

A quick reminder that ‘Hackgate’ and related police corruption investigations rumble on in the UK. Cameron rode with (a) Brooks, including on a horse provided to the News Corp media executive by grateful police. It really would be quite hard to make it up.

Steve: I think that you’re getting carried away here. Santer is more than capable of writing fantasies on his own. As was CRU. My guess is that Wallis’ role was more in helping UEA get the fantasies into the newspapers and media.

Sorry about that, chief! I had just finished reading/listening to the Romm/Olbermann fantasies in all their speculative glory … and if they can fantasize, why can’t I? 😉 Nonetheless …

Of course, we’ll probably never know (unless Romm/Olbermann get their wish for a full-blown independent judicial enquiry!). However, we know from the emails that CRU did not lack “high-level” media contacts whose ears they could bend – with perhaps some input from the UEA media relations dep’t at their disposal. As we now also know – Wallis was not alone on the OO job (unless Bowen was lying on his LinkedIn profile).

So, while I recognize that my current “evidence” is circumstantial at best, considering the timing … it’s not implausible that once they were on the scene, while they may (or may not) have written any actual suggested content, Wallis/Bowen’s strategy would have included identification of the key messages (not to mention the “framing” thereof) to be promulgated amongst the OO “heavy-weight” contacts, as well as amongst the fantasists in CRU’s own network.

]]>By: hro001https://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/#comment-299269
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:16:57 +0000http://climateaudit.org/?p=14203#comment-299269Forgot to mention that when Santer made a presentation to the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, on Tues. Dec. 16, he delivered a much abbreviated version of the message (according to Rabbett). Next chorus and next verse were a little bit louder and a little bit worse:

[…]
Sadly, climate scientists now see and feel interference from political and economic interests. This interference is pervasive. Powerful forces are using a criminal act – the theft of over a thousand emails from the U.K.’s Climatic Research Unit – to advance their own agendas.

These “forces of unreason” seek to constrain our ability to speak truth to power. They seek to skew and distort what we know about the nature and causes of climate change. Having failed to undermine climate science itself, they seek to destroy the reputations of individual climate scientists. They seek to destroy men like Phil Jones and Mike Mann, who have devoted their entire careers to the pursuit of scientific knowledge and understanding.

We must not let this stand.

We no longer have the luxury of remaining silent on these issues. We all have voices. We need to use them.